The English Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Mustapha Marrouchi received his Licence, Maîtrise, and DEA degrees from the Université de Provence (France), and his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. His research and teaching are interdisciplinary and comparative. They include, but are not limited to, Renaissance Tragedy, Post-colonial Literature and Theory, Race and Colonialism, Third-World Feminism, Humanism, Opera, Orality, Africa, Francophone Literature, and often break down the boundaries between fields of study. Marrouchi has taught at the University of Toronto, the University of Lethbridge (both in Canada), the University of Tunis I (Tunisia), Hannover Universität, Brunshweig Universität (Germany), and Louisiana State University. In 2006, he was given the James L. Kinneavy Award. He currently holds the Rogers Fellowship in Post-colonial Literature in the English Department.

Marrouchi’s publications include Edward Said at the Limits (SUNY Press, 2004) and Signifying with a Vengeance (SUNY Press, 2002). He edited Algeriad: Colonialism, Islamism, Terrorism (West Chester University Press, 2003) and has written widely on Islam, terrorism, African-American literature, Arabic literature, theory, colonial discourse, couscous, war, and soccer. His essays have been translated into Catalan, Urdu, and Arabic and his writing has appeared in a variety of journals including Boundary 2, Texte, College Literature, Journal of African Philosophy, JAC, The Dalhousie Review, Akhb~r al-Adab, Ariel, The Southern Review, Countercurrents, Globalcomment. A frequent public speaker, he has voiced his opinion on the invasion of Iraq, terrorism, fundamentalism, torture, injustice.

Most recently, Marrouchi has submitted a manuscript, The Delights of the Margin, which documents the value, surplus, and management of subculture and argues that this way of telling and/or seeing challenges and keeps the core–wherever that may be–in check. He is also editing a collection of essays tentatively titled Embargoed Literature: Arabic.

Marrouchi is currently working on a book he calls Unspeakable Things Spoken at Last as well as on an essay which examines The Clash of Ignorance between the East, the West, and the Rest.